cps3 {DAAG} | R Documentation |
A non-experimental "control" group, used in various studies of
the effect of a labor training program, alternative to the
experimental control group in nswdemo
.
cps3
This data frame contains the following columns:
The cps1
and psid1
data sets are two non-experimental
"control" groups, alternative to that in nswdemo
, used in
investigating whether use of such a non-experimental control group can
be satisfactory. cps2
and cps3
are subsets of cps1
,
designed to be better matched to the experimental data than cps1
.
Similary psid2
and psid3
are subsets of psid1
,
designed to be better matched to the experimental data than
psid1
.
http://www.nber.org/~rdehejia/nswdata.html
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Smith, J. A. and Todd, P.E. 2005,"Does Matching overcome. LaLonde?s critique of nonexperimental estimators", Journal of Econometrics 125: 305-353.
Dehejia, R.H. 2005. Practical propensity score matching: a reply to Smith and Todd. Journal of Econometrics 125: 355-364.